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V103 102.7 FM Radio Interview in Chicago submitted by: Bud source: V103 102.7 FM Date: February 3, 2003 Topic: On whether Whitney still takes Bobbi Kristina to school everyday Whitney: Yeah, probably because I'm so protective. I'm a lioness. I'm a Leo, you see, and that's my cub. Topic: Does Bobbi Kristina sing? Whitney: Yeah, she does. She has a beautiful soprano voice just like my mother. Topic: About Cissy Houston. Whitney: I just talked to her about five minutes ago because I want her to do a tour with Aretha. I want her and the Sweet Inspirations -- Aretha Franklin & The Sweets -- to get back together to do a tour, so I'm playing her manager. She's doing very well, thank you. Topic: About "Love That Man." Whitney: That is my overall, you know, total conception and just my whole feeling for my husband, because that's totally how I feel. You don't know love until you stick it out. Topic: About being a teacher if singing didn't work out. Whitney: I love first, second, third graders. I love young minds. They have the purest and most genuine love. They love you unconditionally. They love you for you. Topic: About who she listens to these days. Whitney: I'm listening to Kim Burrell. I listen to gospel. Honey, I listen to Kim Burrell, John P. Kee, Fred Hammond, CeCe Winans, BeBe, Stevie Wonder. I'm an old school head. I like old music. Topic: About a Gospel CD in the future. Whitney: I believe I will. Very soon. It's inevitable. Topic: About her friends in the business. Whitney: CeCe is my sister. That's like my first love. That's my sister and I love her. I'm close to Perri, who we knew as Pebbles. She's a pastor now. She's my spiritual sister. And of course Faith and I are very close friends because Faith is real. She's from Newark. Topic: About her "divas." Whitney: I like the kind of divas like Gladys, Patti, Dionne, Aretha, and then we got our Mary J. Blige because she the diva. We got people like them who I consider to be divas because they sing with a band, a mic and a light. Topic: About movies. Whitney: I just got some scripts today and I'm looking over them. I think me and Hollywood can meet again. I'm very careful about movies because music is my love and my life and I do that better. It has to be something that I believe in and something that I can get across on the screen, or else I don't mess with it. Topic: Her favorite meal at Mama's house. Whitney: Fried chicken, baked beans, potato salad, collard greens and corn bread. And some iced tea. Some sweet tea! Topic: About "Things You Say" and Missy/Tweet collaboration. Whitney: Well actually, I hooked up with Tweet who is absolutely good friends in Missy's camp. However, it is really ironic because I was looking for Missy's song and her company sent me the wrong song. They sent me the song by Tweet. When I heard this song called, 'Things you Say,' it turned me on and I said, "No I want this one." So I recorded it. DJ: You and Bobby been married for a LONG time. Whitney: Honey, 14 years! [Including years they were dating.] Topic: About marriage and divorce. Whitney: See, divorce is not in the marriage vows. It's not an option. Then you're looking for failure. Bobby and I aren't looking for that. We looked for strong standing relationships. We come from strong, tight-knit families who stick it out. Even though our parents aren't together now, they had like 40 years. However, it's about being able to stick. I asked my dear, dear pastor, Shirley Caesar, I said, "How do you do it?" She's been married for 60 years. I asked her how she did it and she said it's called "stickability." I said, "What does that mean?" and she said, "Having the ability to stick it out." I look forward to sitting on the porch and rocking in the chair with Bobby just talking about old times. You look for that companionship. Nobody wants to be alone. Topic: About her decision to record "You Light Up My Life." Whitney: Bobby... I heard him singing it in the shower. You know, it was like an annointing for me because God touched me. He was like, "I want you to sing this song for me." God did it, and I'm serious, because I was on a spiritual journey at that point in time, coming back home to my church and coming back home to my spirit, man. And it was a song that I dedicated to God, and that was it, that's all I could tell you. Topic: About "steppin" (dancing) down in Atlanta. Whitney: No we ain't steppin. DJ: When you come up here, we gonna show you how to step. Whitney: You gotta show me how to step. Topic: Second single. Whitney: "Try It On My Own." That's the second single. Topic: About the U.S. going to war. Whitney: You know, when he (George Bush) said on television, that this man (Saddam Hussein) has chemical biological warfare that could kill half the population in America, and he has not, at this point, destroyed these chemicals, that he has not put them away, that means we are still in trouble. Our lives, our children, terrorism. We are still in terrorism. That anthrax was not a joke. That stuff was no joke, and if that man is still producing that kind of element... We're not doing that to them. Whatever we're doing, that's one thing we're not doing. So I'm feeling like this -- to save my daughter's life, and to see a future for our children in an America where we can be free, and know we can breathe in air without thinking we're going to die, I think the president has to do what he has to do. And we got brothers and sisters out there that are willing to protect us. We're not unprotected, we have forces. Therefore we have the army, the airforce, the naval marines. What we got them for? So we could protect ourselves. That's what we got them for. God knows I don't want nobody's baby to die. Nobody's! But there's got to be some understanding here. We can't do that World Trade Center thing no more, we can't go through that no more. That was a mess. We got to protect ourselves, y'all. Topic: About Chicago. Whitney: I just want to tell Chi-town that I love them, and they've always been my greatest fans. And they always supported Whitney and prayed for Whitney, because I know the saints out there in Chicago are praying for Whitney. So I thank God for that and I love Chicago. Topic: The last thing she said before introducing "Try It On My Own" was, "Chicago, you gotta teach me how to step." Site design by: Dolphin Webpage Designs © 1996-2003